Give up your guns though people they're just here to protect you. /sarcasm

Eta: waiting for the if he didn't have a gun this wouldn't of happened excuse. No this wouldn't of happened if cops weren't trespassing on his
property and respected his second amendment. He can have a firearm on his person on his property all he wants.

How in the hell do you reduce the number of Acts of Retardation.. ... . .?

It is Shear Stupidity and it is becoming common place in All Local, State, And Federal Governments.. It is Pathetic. Do you think they have any clue
at all that they just shortened Kathy's Life Expectancy?

It is so disheartening to read articles like this. I would call it Negligent Homicide at a minimum and Shear Negligence at best.

There needs to be consequences for all involved. However, I will suspect that they may very well call it an "Honest Mistake".

It is too bad that a law suite could in No way compensate her for her loss and their disregard to detail for Not verifying the address.

Sad. This is becoming more and more common as of late. There have always been stories of Cops who took things too far, but more and more cases of
unjustified (before they change the story for their benefit) use of lethal force are becoming increasingly prevalent. Not to mention incompetence in
general. The fact that they continue to get away with it more often than not (which I'm reasonably sure that they will in this case as well) is
maddening. Whatever happend to justice in this country?

Don't answer that. I believe we all know the answer to that question. Of course, that's not to say that all LEO's are corrupt, trigger happy,
incompetent, idiots. But the good one's seem to be becoming the minority.

18 year old Marine infantrymen were more disciplined 45 years ago than cops are today.... As stressed out as we were, we took to identify a target as
not being friendly before taking it out even if it meant letting them fire first.....I knew a few Dallas police officers that retired from the force
after 30 years and never drew their weapon.... It must be the steroids these young guys are using to be more intimidating causing them to be so
irrational.. Too many tragedies like this are occurring way too often.

Sooner or later everyone is going to get tired of this kind of BS. Why people are afraid to speak up/out is beyond me. There needs to be finger
pointing and accountability in the US (and around the world). A hundred years ago (hell, even up till the 80's) people were not sitting around
letting this happen on the regular.

The world needs an uprising...show these figures with "power" who really has the control.

I hate to say it but would this guy have been shot if he hadn't gone out there with a gun in his hand? It's easy enough to blame the cops but if you
were in their position searching an area for a suspected burglar and you suddenly came across a man with a gun in his hand, what would you do?

What if this old guy came out with a gun and found someone on his property other than police? Would he have opened fire? It could then have turned out
to be a neighbour out searching for his missing dog. Would the neighbour have deserved to die for trespassing?

I know there are major cultural differences on this subject between the US and many other countries but if this was in the UK, the victim would have
been unarmed, told to get on the ground and searched. It's like the fact that a high percentage of stab victims in the UK are stabbed with their own
knives. If you are armed in any way, you stand a higher chance of being killed in self-defence. I don't expect Americans to change their opinions on
guns and respect their right to bear arms however, they need to respect that they are deadly weapons and take lives in a flash whether it be a cop,
burglar, murderer, child or pregnant woman. Once that trigger is pulled, there is no going back.

Seems like cops get into some ridiculous tunnel vision trap where the only people in the world are themselves and the mythical "bad guy" they are
allegedly looking for.

The rest of the world falls back into simply being set props and no other people are expected or allowed to be present. Like a game. Just them, the
target and a bunch of NPC's that only there for atmosphere.

The sickest part is that if the cops werent in their little costumes the old guy may have had the drop on them but thanks to their little costumes the
old guy may have very well thought he was safe and held back his reaction at the sight of "friendlies." Notice the cops didnt hold back.

Originally posted by fiftyfifty
I hate to say it but would this guy have been shot if he hadn't gone out there with a gun in his hand? It's easy enough to blame the cops but if you
were in their position searching an area for a suspected burglar and you suddenly came across a man with a gun in his hand, what would you do?

I would've done EXACTLY what they should be trained to do. EXACTLY what I've even seen them do in movies. It's quite simple.

Point your gun at them, and yell out "Freeze!!! This is the Police!!! Slowly put down your weapon, or we will be forced to open fire!!!"

While you're yelling that, hopefully everyone else will utilize what they are supposed to be trained for, and scope out the entire situation. I've
never gone to police academy, but one of my cousins is a police officer in Missouri, another cousin a prison guard in Colorado, and even though I'm
more of a hermit, my family is very social, and know many retired police officers. I've talked to them before regarding things like this. That, up
there, is what they're supposed to be trained to do.

30 years ago i locked myself out the house and a neighbor saw my legs go through the bedroom window. A few minutes later i walked out the garage and
had 5 cops with their guns trained on me. Today i think i would be dead instead of just having to change my underwear.

Historically there is no real meaningful reform without revolution. We like to think that we humans are reasonable creatures that can do the right
thing because its the "right thing", but we're not. We ONLY do what's right under the threat of violence. Period.

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